The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-08-25

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and all that. They are false reasons.
The reason is because our sermons ana |
exhortations are not interesting, and /
| practical and helpful Some one might |
| as well tell the whole truth on this SUBJ |
| ject, and so l will tell it. The religious |
discourse of the future, the Gospel SER
mon to come forth and shake the nations
and lift the people out of darkness, will
be popular sermon, just for the simple
reason that it will meet the woes and the
anxeties of the people
There are, in all denominations, eccle.
| siastical mummies sitting around to frown
upon the fresh young pupils of America,
| to try to awe them down, to cry out:
''Tut! tutl Sensatio lali' They stand
| to-day preaching in churches that hold
j thousand people, and there are hun
dred persons present, and if they can
not have the world saved in their way it
seems as if they do not want it saved at
all.
do not know but the old way of max
| ing minis tiers of the Gospel is better-a
| coleg ate education and an apprentice
| ship under the care and home attention of
| some earnest, aged Christian minister,
the young man getting the patriarch's
spirit and assisting him in his reli i1us
services. You g lawyers study with old
lawyers, young physicians with old ply
sicans, and believe it would b, great
help if every young man studying for the
Gospel ministry would put himself in the
-Ihome, and heart, and sympathy. and un-
der the benedictlon and perpetual pres
ence of Chris tian minister.
But l remark again, the religious dis
course of the future will be an awaken
ing sermon. From atar-rail to the front
| \ hat oy16t
ence will get up and start for heaven.
There will be in it many staccato pas
sage. 1t will not be lullaby; it will be
battle charge. Men will drop their sins,
for they will feel the hot breath of pur.
suing retribution GA the back of their
necks.
That religious discourse Of the future
will be an every day sermon, going right
down into every mans life, and it will
teach him how to vote, how to bargain,
, how to pillow, how to do any work
, he is called to- how to WELD trowel and
pen and pencil and yardstick and
plane. nd it will teach women how to
preside over their households, and how
to educate their children, and how to imi-
tate Miriam and Esther and Vashti and
! Eunice. the mother of Timothy, and Mary,
the mother of Christ; and those women
L w HU Ou anu koDubus-lu dCeiC-
fields were mistaken by the wounded for
/ angels of mercy fresh from the throne of
, God.
t Yes, have to tell you the religious dis
It course of the future will be a reported
d sermon. Ii you have any idea that print
ing was invented simply to print secular
books, and stenography and photography
were contrive merely to set forth secu-
. lar ideas, you are mistaken. The print
), ing press is to be the great agency of
:, gospel proclamation. 1t is high time
that good men, instead of denouncin Q
= the press, employ it to scatter forth the
u Gospel of Jesus Christ. The vast major
= itv of people in our cities do not come to
= church, and nothing but the printed ser
mon can reach them and call them tt
pardon, and life and peace, AMI Heaven
So can not understand the nervousness
Is of some of our brethren. of the ministry
When they see a newspaper man coming
? in they say:
'e "Alas, there is reporter.
= Every added reporter is ten thousand
u fifty thousand, one hundred thousand i'm
u mortal souls added to the auditory The
- time will come when all the village, tow,
" and city newspapers will reproduce the
y Gospel of Jesus Christ, and sermons
70 preached on the Sabbath will reverberatt
e !, all around the world, and, some by typ
- and some by voice, all nations will b.
- evangelical.
"a The practical bearing of this is upor
- those who are engaged IN Christian wor k
y, not only upon theological students an
= young ministers, but upon all who preacl
the Gospel, and all who exhort in meet
IN ings, and that. is all of you if you are
= doing your duty. Do you exhort in pray
-, er-meeting2 Be short and be spirited. d
you teach In Bible -classl Though you hav
If to study every night, be interes ting Da
"a you accost people on the subject of relig
10 ion in their homes or in public places
"a Study adroitness and the common sense
=. The most graceful and most beautiful
N thing on earth is the religion of Jesu
Of Christ, and if you awkwardly present j
- it is defamation. We must do our wor
If rapidly, and we must do it effective u
ID Soon our time for work will be gone.
A dying Christian took out his watc
Sc and gave it to friend and said:
nd "Take that watch, have no furthe
it use for it; time is ended for me and etc
nj nifty begins.''
wv Oh, my friends, when our watch ha
W, licked away for US the last moment, an
ne our clock has struck for US the last hou
" may it be found we did our work well
le. that we did it in the very best way, an
Jet whether'we preached the Gospelin pulpit
nd or taught Sabbath classes, or admin
til istered to the sick as physicians, or ba1
DIV gained as merchants, or plead the law
attorneys or were busy as artisans, or &
se husbandmen, OR as mechanics, or wei
he like Martha, called to give meal to
es hungry Christ, or like HANNAH
ir. to make coat for prophe
ii, or like Deborah, to rouse II
m. courage of sometimid Barak in the Lord
70, conflict, we did our work in such WI
,at that it will stand the test of the iud
40. ment. And in the long procession of I'll
I'D redeemed that march around the thron,
rot may it be found there are many Their
he brought to God through our instrumel
a q tality, and in whose rescue we are exul
ri ant.
or But, o you unsaved, wait not for th
,he religious discourse of the future. It ma
it: come after your obsequies. 1t may CON
,at after the stone -curter has chiseled oil
of names on the slab, fifty years before.
not wait for a great steamer